""We know that our economy is completely bound up in immigration and migrant labor," Balint said in video shared by NBC 5. "And of course, we have to come to a place in Congress where it is no longer a political issue, but we see it as an existential issue for the country.""
""If we don't have avenues for people to come here legally to work and to build a home here, I'm going to be really crude right now, we're not going to have anybody around to wipe our a*ses," she said. "Because we don't have enough people in our country now to fill the jobs that we have right now.""
""Many immigrants have come to Vermont and gone on to remarkable careers in high-tech fields, including at our microchip manufacturing facility in Essex Junction, or have become world-class physicians serving in Vermont's hospitals," he said, as his party works to deport more people than have been deported in history, including immigrants who have legal rights to be in the U.S. "Immigrants are also critical to our small business community, providing a wide array of goods and services that enrich our state. The way Congresswoman Balint reduced Vermont's hard-working legal immigrants to little"
Rep. Becca Balint defended keeping the U.S. open to immigration at a late-May Newport town hall, calling immigration and migrant labor integral to the economy and an existential issue for the country. She warned that without legal pathways to work and settle, essential jobs would go unfilled, using a crude phrasing about care work. Republicans criticized both the coarse language and the implication that immigration's primary purpose is to perform low-status labor. Vermont GOP Chair Paul Dame highlighted immigrants' roles in high-tech, healthcare, and small business and criticized Balint's characterization while his party pursues aggressive deportation policies.
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